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Sunday, September 24, 2017

Jer 17:17- Blessed is the Man Who Trusts in the Lord

Hi Friends!!

Today I am sharing a
card with a Mixed Media background that I created using a Gelli Arts™ Gel
Printing Plate along with acrylic paints, metallic inks, the Tim Holtz® Sizzix™
Compass Embossing Folder and Verve Stamps, Scripture Medley 4.

I had a great time designing the background (and several others ) using the Gelli Arts™ Gel Printing Plate and felt that this card would be perfect for my nephew, Nicholas (he was baptized ny immersion last weekend) :-)).

The printing process can be a bit messy, but most of the time, you are experimenting and in the end, you will have many wonderful backgrounds for future projects (plus it is a lot of fun)!!

If you have not had
an opportunity to visit the above challenge sites, I hope you will find the
time to do so- absolutely gorgeous inspiration from all!

To create this card:

1). With the Big Shot™
emboss a piece of thick cardstock with the Tim Holtz® Compass Embossing Folder.

2). Apply a few drops
of white acrylic paint along with blue and black onto a Gelli Arts™ Gel
Printing Plate, use a brayer to spread the paint and place the embossed panel
created in the step above (with the raised part of the embossing down) into the
ink. Lift up the panel and press another
piece of watercolor paper onto the plate for the ghost print.

3). Continue to print
off a few sheets using the same technique as above (FYI- the background panel
for this card was the actual original embossed watercolor panel that was used
for the “texture” on the Gelli Arts™ Printing Plate. Allow the panels to
completely dry.

4). Re-insert the printed
panel into the compass embossing folder and re-emboss the panel. Using Encore™ Metallic Silver Pigment Ink,
spread gently over the embossing with the pad face down on the panel.

9 comments:

Oh my! This is absolutely amazing! I love this deep deep blue so much! What a vibrant color and fantastic effect. I love the pattern you embossed too but the colors are something that left me speechless. Great job! Thank you for joining Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.

Wow, Julie, what an amazing background you've created using your printing plate. The rich, deep blue is beautifully accented by the touches of metallic and white paints. The colours really do justice to that gorgeous embossed image. Great design and sentiment. Thanks so much for joining our Watercooler Wednesday Challenge this week.

Julie always a pleasure to have you join us for our Watercooler Challenges. This week you've created a such a rich image with the embossing and Gelli technique and paints. Such a vivid a blue. The scripture card is really a nice touch. Your nephew will be pleased with this card. Thanks again.

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Welcome to my blog! I started my papecrafting journey almost 20 years ago as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator. I wanted to show others that you do not have to have the artistic ability to draw in order to create :-) After 19+ years as a primarily hobby demo, I have retired my demonstrator status. I have not sold any of my Stampin' Up! retired stamps, papers, dies, etc. and plan to continue to use my massive stash to create cards, journals, scrapbooks, etc. I will note the manufacturer I use in my posts, but I will be using quite a bit of retired products. I hope that I can inspire you to be creative as well, and if you cannot locate the products I use, adapt the inspiration to what you have on hand. I do spend a lot ot time designing my cards, photographing and editing as well as creating blog posts. With this in mind, unless otherwise noted, all of my designs are copyrighted by me. You are free to CASE (Copy and Share Everything) my designs for PERSONAL USE ONLY. PLEASE DO NOT COPY or CASE my designs for any challenge, contest, publication or for re-sale of any type. If you do decide to CASE my designs for personal use and publish that CASE anywhere on the internet, please give credit (link back to my blog) :-)

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